This is going to sound really strange...how old is too old?

[yearbook50]

After 2, its kinda ridiculus in a public place. Especially because it wasn't their party.

Its one thing if its in their place of residence with no people around. I'm even known to go around my apartment sans most clothes because well its summer and I hate being sticky in this icky heat. But in public its different.

Now I can excuse it if the kid gets sick and the parent just wants them out of the "sick" clothes. I was 6 driving up to North Carolina with my parents when well the stomach flu hit me. My parents had to pull to the side of the road and do some clean up. I gave all of I-95N that day a peep show.

 

[Nancy]

I had some coworkers at the party and with him running around naked and peeing in the bushes I just felt humiliated. They all looked shocked and I was so embarassed.

So she had him running around naked in front of strangers? Nope, not in a mllion years! The only time my girls ran aorund naked was after bathtime and that ended by 2 or 3.

 

[kidzmom3]

I think it is too old for the nakedness. Topless little girls don't really bother me that much, but mine always wore their bikini tops ( iread somewhere that Reece Witherspoon will not let her daughter wear a bikini).

pee in the bushes, we have a house on a lake in NH and some of the adult males in our family think they are helping to "save the septic system" by peeing outside. But at least I never, ever, ever see it!!!!!!

 

[Stitch1404]

Thanks for the affirmation. I knew I wasn't way off here!

Not that any of my co-workers are perverts...but you never know. There is no way in heck either of my kids will ever be naked around strangers. Not even my one year old son.

About the peeing in the bushes...they have a pool at their home. They taught their son that if he has to go to the bathroom he just needs to get out of the pool and pee out the fence into the grass. They said it is because they don't want him dragging water inside. I find this entirely unacceptable and sad at the same time. This little boy thinks this is okay and really it isn't. People were laughing at him and he/his mom didn't know. It was just very uncomfortable for me.

This woman is notoriously disrespectful. She also allowed her 2 year old to carry around a cup of Sprite. I offered her a sippy cup but she wouldn't accept it. She said she wanted him to have a real cup. So then he dropped the whole thing on the floor. She didn't think I saw this and she kind of brushed over the area with a paper towel. Well, Sprite is really sticky and there were 40+ people at our house, the floor was a disaster. There is really no explaining this woman, at least she doesn't come from my side of the family!

 

[Nancy]

I think it is too old for the nakedness. Topless little girls don't really bother me that much, but mine always wore their bikini tops ( iread somewhere that Reece Witherspoon will not let her daughter wear a bikini).

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To respond to the Reese part. When my girls were little I bought my older a twp piece and my Mom thought it was horrible. made the comment that I would rather she wore a two piece before she had anything to show and my Mom said it was worse when they are little cause there are too many sick adults that get turned on by seeing little girls in bikini's. Needless to say my girls didn't get a 2 pc.suit again until they were much older.

 

[yearbook50]

I would just like to say thank you tag fairy
I had this strange feeling I might get a tag from this thread. hehe.

 

[Stitch1404]

I would just like to say thank you tag fairy
I had this strange feeling I might get a tag from this thread. hehe.

Haha!! Too funny!! Congrats!!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I am almost positive that if you take a frontal photo of a naked child age 4 or older it is considered child porn. Even if all they are doing is playing in the yard. I REALLY have to think they have that rule for a reason, and that reason is that kids older than 4 need to be covered up. 4 year olds are NOT babies. If somebody had their kid running naked at my house in front of my CO-WORKERS I would not have been very nice about it. And peeing in the bushes is completely inappropriate.

 

[tiggerlover]

In my opinion that was inappropriate, the very least she should have let him run around in his briefs, but not naked. If it were her house and yard and not a group gathering then maybe, but your house, your guests (family, friends and co-workers), NO WAY!

 

[Stitch1404]

I am almost positive that if you take a frontal photo of a naked child age 4 or older it is considered child porn. Even if all they are doing is playing in the yard. I REALLY have to think they have that rule for a reason, and that reason is that kids older than 4 need to be covered up..

I am telling that statistic to my husband. That totally prooves my point. I am also checking all the digital pictures I took of the kids slip and sliding.

 

[msdznyduck]

Totally innappropriate. I have3 children, and none of them were naked running around (except after a bath) after the age of about 18 months.

If he had been a she, would she still have thought it okay? You always read of some sicko that rapes and kills a 3 year old (or even younger). There's a special place in Hell for people that do that to innocent children.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Two of my teenage boys and a bunch of their doofus friends ran all the way around the house in their underwear when there was about a foot of snow on the ground and more falling.

I never got a good answer as to WHY. (Because my kids are all nuts. Inherited from DH.)

TOV

 

[jodifla]

Wow, this is one uptight, conservative group.


In this case, I'd have done what another poster suggested.....let him wear his shorts in the pool, and go home in his underwear.

But I hardly mind DS, 4, running around naked after bathtime in my own home. And I do change him (discreetly) into dry clothes at the car before we go home from the lake, sheltered by the door on one side and me on the other.

Peeing in the bushes is a no-no when there's a potty around, but we've used this methods several times in the last year when we've been traveling and miles away from a bathroom.

 

[noodleknitter]

I can't imagine letting one of my kids run around naked at that age at someone else's home with even more company. Underwear, or shorts. I personally would have just run home to get what they needed.

Our kids, however have skinny dipped when we are at our farm, and lacking spare clothes. They made a mud slide once, and had a ball. Until that eve. when they discovered minute scratches on their heinies. Learned an important lesson that day. Out there they can also whizz wherever they want. In town, of course they cant'.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Why didn't she just let him play on the thing in his shorts, or his underwear??!!
Peeing in the bushes.....I don't think so!!

Apparently she is training him to be a MAN! Had a heated discussion with a gym teacher at my school b/c he was FAILING a student b/c he wore his gym clothes under his street clothes embarrassed to change in front of the rest of the class. I flipped out on the guy and asked what this had to do with particpation in Gym class. He told me it had to do with "being a man" meaning being able to be naked in front of others.(I of course went after him and even chased him down the hall flipping out on him),and well as we all know men think that the world is their toilet when they need to go especially when they are drunk! So, mabye she was not that far off(READ WITH extreme sarcasm).

I think this was totally inappropriate but then you asked your husband for his opinion and the key is he is a MAN!!

 

[Freyja]

It wouldn't bother me at all. If the child and his mother were comfortable then thats fine.
I would not be offended in the slightest by a naked 4 yr old.
Now if a teenager stripped down that would be different.

ITA!!!

 

[4cruisin]

Nope, I think it was inappropriate for nephew to be running naked at a family party. It's one thing what he does at home but out in public, no way. As far as peeing in the bushes, obviously his parents don't have many rules for him.

About 7 years ago, our neighbors children, all boys ages 3, 6 and 8 were running around another neighbor's driveway naked. Another neighbor went over and said to the kids father, "Gee, Billy, Bobby & Tommy are in Grace's yard running around naked." The father says, "Oh, are they burning their feet?" The neighbor just stood there dumbfounded and then walked away. Hello, I don't think children of any age should be running around the neighborhood naked.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

Two of my teenage boys and a bunch of their doofus friends ran all the way around the house in their underwear when there was about a foot of snow on the ground and more falling.

I never got a good answer as to WHY. (Because my kids are all nuts. Inherited from DH.)

Well, as low as some teenage boys wear their pants, going out in only their underwear wouldn't reveal a whole lot more.

I agree that 4 is too old to run around someone else's house nekkid. I would have had him play in his underwear or just his shorts. But it's a different story at home. My 8yo is a budding nudist, and we let her run around the house naked until she was 6, I think. Then we started insisting she put clothes on when she comes downstairs, but she will take off her pajamas after going to bed, sleep in the nude, and remain naked upstairs as long as she can.

Between the nudity/peeing and the Sprite thing, this woman sounds like a real piece of work. I teach my kids to abide by the rules of the home they are in, and if the hostess doesn't want them to be naked, carry an open cup of Sprite around, or whatever else, they don't do it.